A Day in the Life of a Penguin

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discove...

Give young nature explorers and zoologists an exciting way to learn about the icy homes, physical features, and behaviours of this Antarctic bird b...

A collection of modernist short stories which create a picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. The author stories are rooted in the ri...

Part of Ella Bailey's acclaimed series of nonfiction for young readers, we follow a young penguin through a day in its life in the Antarctic.

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Salina YoonGeisel Honor-winning author/illustrator Salina Yoon's beloved character Penguin searches for his match in Pengui...

Reducere. Imagine a world where colourful animals live and play their lives out, enjoying the sun and looking for food, whilst avoiding becoming lunch for so...

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets ...

Reducere. To understand the most contentious issues around religious liberty, this volume provides influential philosophical ideas from the U.S.'s founding t...

In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects ...

It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls ...

Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power an...

Reducere. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, a piece of string or a single match in a wor...

Ahmed drives his donkey cart through the streets of Cairo, delivering butane gas cylinders to his father's customers. He knows everyone and has a p...

Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget...

Reducere. The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyd...

A thriller set in occupied France, drawn from a real life historical conspiracy which was felt at the top of the British establishment. Set to coin...

Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishabl...

Reducere. In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working clas...

A collection of tales that range from one man's honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan's Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera", and...

Reducere. Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The You...

Reducere. ``Nezhukumatathil's poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem...

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert...

In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of h...

Reducere. We all have a story. When your great-grandchildren's children pick up your story one day, WOW This is a treasure beyond any other treasure that you...

Elmore Green started life as an only child, as many children do. He had a room all to himself, and everything in it was his. But one day, everythin...

The powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, now with a new introduction With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him prai...

Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantr...

DescriptionContemporary / British English These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual p...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nuala EllwoodNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 23Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the ...

In The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws...

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybodys life. The glad ...

Reducere. Drakulic's composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. --The New Yorker An evocative and time...

"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity." When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a...

Maggie Walsh is supposed to be the sensible one - the white sheep of the family. She lives less than a mile from Mum and Dad and married middle-of-...

Reducere. Spur AwardsBrian Hall's compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark's extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. F...

Reducere. It's a Christmas miracle The Golden Girls are back by popular demand in a holiday Mad Libs fit for a queen... or four. Merry Christmas from sunny M...

From the same author that brought us The Little Book of Hygge, this book reveals the secret to filling your life with happy moments, and how to rem...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Description'After my death, ' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncan...

The Dalai Lama serves as a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation for people of all religious traditions-as well as those ...

The inspirational work that has been guiding Benedictine monks for fifteen centuries Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Napl...

Reducere. One of Entertainment Weekly's 25 most anticipated books of 2016--Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, ...

DescriptionThis heartwarming book celebrates the love that fathers and children share in the animal kingdom, while also teaching young readers abou...

Catherine Alliott, bestselling author of One Day in May and A Crowded Marriage, takes a heart-warming look at what happens when your whole world is...

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.When wait...

Description"Riveting...A true-life mix of James Bond, Lawrence of Arabia and 'Casablanca.'" -The Wall Street Journal The astonishing untold story o...

Reducere. After a recent trip to his homeland, Australia's best-loved French chef, Manu Feildel, was inspired by a way of life that values the quality of foo...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. HarrisAuthor: Who HqIllustrator: Jerry HoareStep back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life reb...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Nathanael WestNumber of pages: 240Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2000Dimension...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is an...

Michael L. Printz AwardNina LaCour's award-winning, achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback -Includes a new foreword by Nicola Yoon,...

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize Witty, ...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky--twilight, golden hour...

1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace - but also the year the talking began....

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.When weal...

A Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the YearWhat happens in our brains when we wake up, savour a meal or a glass of wine, walk the dog, star...

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she na...

Conventional thinking says that entrepreneurship is all about excitement and big bets, while traditional career paths are all about stability. But ...

Reducere. An illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein's most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and...

Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relativel...

Reducere. "Make your bed to change the world...'What starts here changes the world' was the university slogan that inspired William H. McRaven to take charge...

Short stories that are bigger on the inside. Tracking three extraordinary short adventures from across the Whoniverse, The Triple Knife is the firs...

DescriptionChannel the power of your inner ocean goddess, their life and style, mythology and spirituality. Mermaid Magic will inspire you to creat...

One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book A timely explo...

Reducere. " A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest a...

Dreamy, scatty and impossibly romantic, Polly McLaren is a secretary in an advertising agency, but the day a stranger on a train catches her eye, h...

Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face hi...

Three stories of triumph combine to empower young readers to look inward for strength and create their own definition of bravery. Told in gentle, r...